Garment-fastening hook.



E. E. HOWELL. GARMENT FASTENING HOOK. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 14, 1914.

1, 1 O8, 1 78. Patented Aug. 25, 1914.

WITNESSES.-

THE LORRIS PETERS C0,. PHOfO LtTHOq WASHINGTON. D. Ll

ELIZABETH E. HOWELL, OF DENVER, COLORADO.

GARMENT FASTENING HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 14, 1914.

Patented Aug. 25; 1914. Serial No. 812,038.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ELIZABETH E. HOWELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver and State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Fastening Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in garment hooks and its principal object resides in the provision of a hook of simple and rigid construction which has a recess to receive the threads used in fastening the hook at the end at 5 which it is engaged by the complementary eye-member of the fastening of which the hook forms part. The purpose of this recess is to hold the threads so that they cannot possibly come in contact with the eye-member and so that the hook is fixed against longitudinal displacement on the garment, it being an established fact that in the use of the hooks as ordinarily constructed, the thread soon wears through by frictional engagement with the eyemember, while the hook-shank is free to move back and forth through the threads at the end at which the said member is applied.

An embodiment of my invention is shown in the accompanying drawings in the vari ous views of which like parts are similarly designated, and in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved garment hook, drawn to an exaggerated scale, Fig. 2, a longitudinal section taken along the line 22, Fig. 1, Fig. 3, a transverse section along the line 33, Fig. 1,

and Fig. 4, a section of the hook, similar to Fig. 1, showing the method of applying the threads by which it is fastened to a garment, and the relative position of the complementary eye-member of the fastening of which the hook forms part.

Referring to the drawings by numerical reference characters, the numeral 7 designates the shank of the hook, 6 the bill of the same and 8 the bend which forms the connection between the bill and the shank and constitutes the portion of the hook which in practice is engaged by the complementary eye-member 10 into which the bill is inserted.

The numbers 9 designate the loops at the rear end of the shank by means of which the said end is fastened to the garment and an upwardly curved portion 1 of the shank, servesto maintain the eye-member in its proper position with relation to the hook when the parts are in their cooperative positions as shown in Fig. 4.

The hook is made by bending a single length of wire into a shank composed of three substantially parallel members 12, 13 and 14, the middle one of which is curved to provide the above-mentioned retaining portion or hump 1. The three shank members are at the rearward end of the hook bent to form the laterally projecting loops 9 which provide means for fastening the said end to the garment designated by the numeral 15 in Fig. 4, by threads 17 sewed around the same. At the opposite end of the hook, the three shank members are bent reversely to form the bill 6, the outer ones of said members being integrally connected by a bend 4, while the middle member is secured at the said bend by means of an eye 5 formed at its outer extremity.

The three members of the bill formed by the continuations of the shank-members are disposed substantially in a common plane, and to eliminate at the end of the bill at which the eye is located, any downwardly projecting protuberance which might interfere with the ready entrance of the eyemember into the space between the bill and the shank, the bend 4 is curved upwardly as plainly shown in Fig. 3 to provide a recess capable of receiving the lower portion of the said eye. At the point of the middle member 13 of the shank adjacent its portion at which it is turned to form part of the bill 8 of the hook, a recess 3 is formed by bending the wire of which the said member is composed, downwardly before it is turned upwardly. The function of this recess is to receive the threads 17 by means of which the eye-engaging end of the hook is secured to the garment as shown in Fig. 4.

The recess 3 maintains the threads below the plane of the inner surface of the shank members so that when the eye-member 10 of the fastening is in place, it cannot come in contact therewith, and the recess provides at the same time a shoulder as at 2 which prevents longitudinal displacement of the hook by a sliding movement of its shank through the thread-loops at its forward end.

It will be observed that the middle memher of the shank is bent upwardly to dispose the lower surface of its downwardly bent portion in a plane with the corresponding surface of the outer shank members, and thereby provide an even contact with the garment to which the hook is applied.

l/Vhile I have shown and described my improved hook in the best form at present known to me, I desire it understood that modifications in the shape and arrangement of its parts may be resorted to within the spirit of my invention as defined in the following claims.

I claim 1. A garment hook comprising a shank and a bill connected by an eyeengaging bend, the said shank being composed of three members and the said bill being formed of continuations of the same, the middle shank member having adjacent the said bend, a thread receiving recess formed by a down *ard bend, and the said member being bent upwardly for placing the lower surface of its portion in which the recess is formed, in the plane of the lower surfaces of the outer shank members.

2. A garment hook composed of a single length of wire including a shank composed of three members and a bill formed of continuations of the salute, the outer members and their continuations being disposed in substantially parallel planes, the outer ones of the said continuations being integrally connected by a bend at the rearward end of the bill, the middle one of the said continuations being connected at the said bent by an eye formed at its extremity, and the transverse portion of the said bend being arched to provide a recess which disposes the lower portion of the eye outside the space between the bill and the shank.

A garment hook comprising a shank composed of three members and a bill formed of three-members which are continuations of the shank-members with which they are respectively connected by bends, the

bonds between the outer members of the bill and the shank extendmg rearwardly of the bend between the middle members of the same to engage, exclusive of the latter, with an eye into which the bill is inserted, and the middle shank-member having at its eX- treme forward end, a thread receiving recess formed by an abrupt downward bend the forward part of which forms an extension of the bond between the said shank-member and the respective bill-member and the opposite part of which provides a shoulder -apable of preventing displacement of threads disposed in the recess, rearwardly along the shank.

at. A garment hook comprising a shank composed of three members and a bill formed of three members which are continuations of the shank-members with which they are respectively connected by bends, the bends between the outer members of the bill and the shank extending rearwardly of the bend between the middle members of the same to engage exclusive of the latter, with an eye into which the bill is inserted, the

I middle shank-member having at its extreme forward end, a thread receiving recess formed by an abrupt downward bend the forward part of which forms an extension of the bend between the said shank-member and the respective bill-member and the opposite part of which provides a shoulder capable of preventing displacement of threads disposed in the recess, rearwardly along the shank, and the said middle shank member being bent upwardly for placing the lower surface of its portion in which the recess is formed, in the plane of the lower surfaces of the outer shank-members.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELIZABETH E. HOlVELL.

\Vitnesses D. J. ROLLANDET, C. A. Ennis.

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